In a letter dated Feb. 11 asking the judge to push back the sentencing, defence lawyer Andrew Frisch wrote that he needed more time because of difficulties with medical visits “as we attempt to draft a submission for the court that is expected to include multiple medical reports.”

“These Americans need an attack … I wanna create the next 9/11,” El Bahnasawy wrote to a man he thought was a co-conspirator but who was actually working undercover for police.

Bottles of Hydrogen peroxide shipped to the US as part of Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy’s terror plot.

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The attacks were to occur in June 2016, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, U.S. authorities said. El Bahnasawy had purchased bomb-making materials in Ontario and sent them to the informant.

Before accepting his guilty plea last year, a U.S. federal judge questioned El Bahnasawy at length about his physical and mental health but both he and his lawyers agreed he was competent.

Court documents, however, show that El Bahnasawy was being treated for mental health issues. He was seeing a psychiatrist in jail, taking the anti-psychotic medication Geodon and having hallucinations.